DAVID: Our next guest stars in the wildly popular television program known as "The X-Files" which makes its season premiere this Friday. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back the lovely and talented "Senorita" Gillian Anderson.

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DAVID: How do you do?

GILLIAN: Iím good, thank you. Hola!

DAVID: Hola!

GILLIAN: ŅComo estŠ?

DAVID: Hola! Si, oui. Tres bien. Um

GILLIAN: (laughs)

DAVID: Nice to see you back here. I trust you had a lovely summer.

GILLIAN: I did have a lovely summer. Thank you.

DAVID: Whatíd you do for the summer? Did you have the summer off, first off, letís start there.

GILLIAN: I did have it off, but I made the choice to do some traveling, to do some publicity

DAVID: Really? This sounds more like a kidnapping. One of those Patty Hurst deals.

GILLIAN: (laughs) No machine guns.

DAVID: Seriously, you traveled all over Europe (GA: We did) and then you went to the South Pacific?

GILLIAN: Yes!

DAVID: My goodness! How long were you gone?

GILLIAN: About uh, two and a half months.

DAVID: Really?

GILLIAN: For the whole time, about two and a half months.

DAVID: So you didnít get to come home for two and a half months.

GILLIAN: We didnít get to- No, it was actually kind of nice.
DAVID: Yep.

GILLIAN: Spent some time, uh Bali is absolutely beautiful.

DAVID: Iíve heard that. I donít know anything about it. Iím not even sure where it is.

GILLIAN: Itís very - a lot of palm trees.

DAVID: What is it near?

GILLIAN: Itís near Lambac (sp?)

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GILLIAN: Itís, itís north of Australia.

DAVID: Uh, Iím not even sure if itís near Larchmont, Dave. (WHAT?) Just up the turnpike.

GILLIAN: (laughs) Itís a, itís north of Australia.

DAVID: Uh, huh.

GILLIAN: Itís actually uh-

DAVID: Is it in the Pacific, in the Indian Ocean? What is it in?

GILLIAN: What would that be?

DAVID: The Japan Sea? Where is it?

GILLIAN: That would be uh, that would probably be the Indian Ocean, huh? (looks at audience) Indian Ocean, donít you think? Huh? Yeah?

DAVID: I donít know. Werenít you there? Wait a minute, werenít you there?!

GILLIAN: I was there. I was there! But nobody said, "You are now swimming in the Indian Ocean."

DAVID: (laughs)

GILLIAN: But, itís interesting because they, at least at the hotel that I was staying at, they speak very good English.

DAVID: Mmm, hm.

GILLIAN: But you get the impression that they donít really understand you very well.

DAVID: Right ..

GILLIAN: Because youíll say something, and ask them to repeat it back and itís completely different. I had an experience the last day that we were there. I bought a charcoal drawing, quite large ..

DAVID: A charcoal drawing of, of, is this of indigionous art, is what it was?

GILLIAN: .. of a naked Balinese woman, actually.

DAVID: Really? A naked Polinese woman.

GILLIAN: Yeah. Balanise.

DAVID: Balinese. Oh, Bali. From Bali.

GILLIAN: As opposed to Polinesian, right. So, um, and, uh .. (audience laughs, GA giggles) I wanted to put it in my suitcase, but I didnít want it to get ruined, so I called down to the general manager and I said, "Do you Have a cardboard tube?"

DAVID: Right, like a mailing tube?

GILLIAN: So that I could like a mailing tube. And he said, "Um, can you describe that to me?" and I said, "Well, itís long, and itís cylindrical, and you put things inside it to keep them from wrinkling." and he said, "Uh, huh." and I said, "Do you know what Iím talking about?" and he said, "Whatís cardboard?"

DAVID: There you go ..

GILLIAN: And I said, "Well, itís um, boxes! Boxes are made out of cardboard, but itís like squished together and hard and round and long." and he said, "Is a mini-van too small?"

DAVID: Yeaaah. (audience laughs)

GILLIAN: .. I said, "We are not having this conversation any more."

DAVID: So suddenly youíre, youíre playing the Balinese version of the twenty thousand dollar pyramid just to try to get your picture off the island.

GILLIAN: (laughs) Yeah.

DAVID: And what is life like there? Is it primitive? Is it um ..

GILLIAN: Well, itís interesting because itís, itís beautiful. There are a lot of shacks all over the place. But you know, the qual-, the standard of living is not very high. But they are a very spiritual country and so in front of all of the shacks they have these stone monuments to their gods. And itís strange that, theyíre religion is a mixture of Hinduism and Buddhism, and their own kind of an assortment of religions. Um, but there are these amazing religious structures in front of every single shack.

DAVID: You know, uh, the last time you were here we talked about you had received an Emmy nomination for your work on the show and uh, David Doo-cuv-ney, Doo-chuv-ney, however heís pronouncing it now, uh-

GILLIAN: (laughing) WHAT are you saying?

DAVID: (laughs) was overlooked but you said he was very gracious about the fact that you, you know ..